stella goffman Washington University in St. Louis B.S. Architecture
about me I am an architectural designer with a passion for design centered around environmental preservation and social equity. I recently earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture and a minor in Environmental Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. I am inspired to work toward a brighter future for communities, people, and the planet. Beyond my professional pursuits, I enjoy dedicating my time to youth education and environmental stewardship. I channel my energy into organizations devoted to protecting biodiversity and providing accessible food and housing for local communities.
education Washington University in St. Louis Bachelor of Science in Architecture | Minor in Environmental Studies Class of 2023 | 3.83 GPA | Dean’s List
experience Sustainable Buildings Associate | Washington University Office of Sustainability | St. Louis, MO January 2022 - May 2022 & February 2023 - May 2023 •
Researched and presented proposals for sustainable practices in university architecture projects, including WELL, LEED, Living Building Challenge, and bird-friendly design.
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Developed university-wide strategic plan to determine campus sustainability and wellness practices for the next decade.
Intern | Northwest Lifestyle Homes | Bellevue, WA June 2022 - August 2022 •
Led firm-wide transition to implement project visualization and client renders, improved internal communication, and pioneered a full website redesign.
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Developed skills in Revit, Photoshop, Lumion, AutoCAD, and firm-client relations.
Museum Attendant | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | St. Louis, MO September 2019 - January 2022 •
Assisted museum patrons and answered art questions.
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Monitored the safety of the Kemper art collection.
extracurriculars Volunteer | Seattle Tilth
President | Women in Architecture & Design
September 2023 - present
January 2022 - May 2022
Nonprofit work on urban gardens & food accessibility
Club promoting female empowerment in the design field
Counselor & Art Instructor | Hidden Valley Camp
Art Director | The Scene Magazine
June 2023 - August 2023
January 2021 - December 2021
3-month intensive program with children of all ages, including art
Head of illustration for WashU magazine, showcasing student art &
and environmental education, and wilderness first aid
campus life
Community Leader | Alpha Rho Chi
Member | Design For America
February 2021 - May 2023
September 2019 - May 2021
National Professional Art & Architecture Fraternity
Interdisciplinary design consulting for community partners
skills
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LEED® Green Associate™
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, & InDesign
Rhino 3D, AutoCAD, Revit
Model making
Lumion, VRay, Enscape
Sketching
stellagoffman@wustl.edu
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206.755.6320
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San Francisco, CA
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pa t c hwo r k o ve r t h e a r n o
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c l o s e d - l o o p fa r m e r ’ s m a r k e t
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s e r p e n t i n e c o nve n t
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bridge artist gallery + residence
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e nv i r o n m e n t a l a n a l y s i s
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p r o fe s s i o n a l wo r k
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1/4 Scale Model + Photoshop
patc hwork ove r th e arno Montessori Design 6 week studio in Florence, Italy Faculty: Robert McCarter This project explores how Montessori children might use geometric spatial relationships to connect with each other, their learning materials, and their environment.
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Every aspect of the design was inspired by wooden Montessori materials, using rectangles at varying scales and proportions to create volumes and voids. The wood walls, floor, and cabinetry provide a warm, textured yet neutral environment. The open corridor of the school is reminiscent of Florence’s cobblestone piazzas, and smaller details draw inspiration from Amsterdam.
1/4 Scale Model + Photoshop
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The classrooms are held between meterthick facades, each a unique Mondrianesque puzzle of mullions, moveable panels, and openings. The east façade connects to the piazza, while the west is an almost entirely glass volume cantilevering over the Arno. Each is a patchwork of intimate and grand spaces for children to work, read, play, climb, and observe their surroundings.
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AutoCAD
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Illustrator
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Rhino, VRay, Photoshop
closed-loop fa r m e r ’ s m a r k e t Pop-Up Farmer’s Market St. Louis, MO Faculty: Eric Ellingsen The Closed-Loop Farmer’s Market is a social exploration of food production, consumption, and waste. The project is a temporary dining structure meant to represent inequities surrounding food accessibility and environmental issues inherent to the current global food system.
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Rhino, VRay, Photoshop
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The design incorporates gardening, harvesting, sharing recipes, cooking, eating, and composting. The structure is designed to be affordable and easily constructed, so any community may access produce and recipes across cultures. The sculptural table is made up of wood components curved seamlessly together to create surfaces at various heights, archways, kitchenettes, and planters. The project is meant to be low-cost, environmentally-friendly, and serves as a public educational tool. Nutrition is one of the most significant factors in determining well-being and life expectancy, as well as one of the most significant steps to reducing climate change. Acknowledging the benefits of good food has the power to change the world.
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Rhino + Illustrator
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1/16 Scale Model
s er pentine co nvent Carmelite Convent Design Puerto Rico Faculty: Jim Williamson This project revolved around a studio trip to Puerto Rico, where I explored the cultural, environmental, and historical context of a Puerto Rican Catholic convent.
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Serpentine Convent is a beacon of light folded into a spiraling structure. Organic spaces, representing light, air, water, and circulation, wind their way through the blocky form, creating atmospheric spaces for prayer. Glass allows certain spaces to be bathed in light, while other spaces, nestled in the earth, provide a cool escape from the Puerto Rican climate. Reflecting pools are connected along the outdoor terraces, guiding a walking path for the cloistered nuns to use. Privacy is particularly important for nuns of a Carmelite order. The convent form creates relationships between private and public spaces through the contrasting bright, exposed spaces and the buried, darker spaces. The building transitions from private living spaces for the nuns nestled in the mountainside, to shared spaces such as libraries, up to a large chapel at the top open to the public. From a distance, the form embodies a sense of heavenly light reaching upward. Rhino + VRay
Rhino + VRay
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Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop
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3D Printed Model
3/16 Scale Model
USGS Map, Rhino, Illustrator
This studio included a site visit to Puerto Rico to choose the location for the convent. Within the Karst Region of Puerto Rico, the project overlooks a great basin within a heavily forested landscape with steep hills and underground caves. A cave accessible to the public is located across the valley, capturing a view of the convent for travelers to discover. The structure was designed to be intertwined with its environment and culture, both in form and function. Several passive design strategies make the building suitable for Puerto Rico’s climate, while incorporating the cultural value and history of the region. The height of the tower creates self-
shading patios, emphasizing the indoor-outdoor connection. A 3D printed sunscreen provides further shading, comes from the “brise soleil” concept commonly utilized in Puerto Rican architecture, and courtyard water features provide a cooling effect in the hot, humid climate. Concrete, used as the primary construction material, has the ability to withstand the harsh wind, precipitation, and flooding conditions of the region.
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1/4 Scale Model
bridge gallery + r e s i d e n ce St. Louis, MO Faculty: Kelley Murphy, Dusica Stankovic Bridge is an investigation of the relationships between part and whole, public and private, viewer and artist, interior and exterior, and occupant and site. The project is the result of a combination of constraints: an abstract geometry from a study on part to whole relationships, the program for an artist residence and gallery space, and the context of a site in the Grand Center Arts District in St. Louis.
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AutoCAD + Photoshop
Bridge is made up of two of these massings that speak to each other in plan and elevation. One component of the gallery is nestled partially underground and the other perched above a courtyard, offering differing amounts of natural light and privacy. Approaching the gallery from Grandell Square, the circulation spirals up as it transitions from public to private space.
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Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop
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The ribbon-like flow of the roof echoes the circulation from gallery on the first floor, studio on the second, and residence on the top floor. The corrugated wood components of the facade echo the concrete texture studies, creating a smaller scale of the flow of the entire project.
Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop
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1/4 Scale Model, Photoshop
Rhino, Enscape
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Occupants enter the gallery from Grandell Square or through the courtyard, allowing the site to flow from the street to the Contemporary Art Museum and Pulitzer Arts Foundation, along with other art institutions beyond. The sloping roof extends the project’s north side toward the landscape and the south side lifts from the ground to take advantage of natural daylight. The bridgelike form of the project signifies its connection to surrounding cultural institutions and greenspace, providing a quiet yet dynamic backdrop for the art and surrounding context.
1/4 Scale Model
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The California Academy of Sciences (Renzo Piano Building Workshop, 2008) in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park provides a case study for sustainable design. Renzo Piano’s intention was to metaphorically “lift up a piece of the park and put a building underneath.” Key features include a living green roof with 1.7 million indigenous plants, operable windows and skylights for daylighting and ventilation, radiant heat concrete flooring, insultation made from recycled denim, recycled steel, and sustainable-yield lumber.
AutoCAD
e nv i r o n m e n t a l analysis Above California Academy of Sciences Case Study Opposite Ecology Education Center Site Analysis My passion for sustainable, ecologically-centered architecture includes extensive research on existing precedents and environmental analysis skills.
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Automated Ventilation
Living Roof with 1.7 million Indigenous Plants
Natural Light for Indoor Rainforest
60,000 Photovoltaic Cells
Radiant Floor Heating
Recycled Denim Insulation
95% Recycled Steel
Concrete - 15% Fly Ash, 35% Slag
50% Sustainable-Yield Lumber
Illustrator
Rhino + Illustrator
Rhino + Grasshopper
Rhino + Ladybug
This design was informed by topographical studies, cut + fill analysis, landscape planting plan, rainwater analysis, and sunlight hour analysis. The final iteration is an ecology education center that uses passive solar shading, ventilation, minimal development, native plantings, as well as accessible walkways, bioswales, and rain gardens.
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Photoshop
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p r o fe s s i o n a l wo r k Northwest Lifestyle Homes Bellevue, WA My professional experience includes working at a small design build firm, where I was given free reign to lead projects and develop skills. I independently created visualization for clients, worked on AutoCAD drawings, learned Revit, created Lumion renders, and redesigned the firm’s website.
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south elevation
AutoCAD
Revit + Lumion
Revit + Lumion
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Samples of my work with freelance website design, including a high-end residential firm, landscape architecture firm, and plant nursery.
Ceramics is where my interest in design was born, and I come back to it as a passion, meditation, and creative outlet.
Much like architecture, clay speaks through a series of relationships with light, texture, and void. A block of clay has infinite possibilities, with each sculpture embodying a unique sense of life.
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t h a n k yo u
stellagoffman@wustl.edu
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206.755.6320
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San Francisco, CA